So 3 years later, he’s at an open mic night and he meets his (now) manager who convinced him to move to New York City, and by 26, Joe was able to pay his bills with comedy! When he was 21 years old, one of Joe's friends who thought he was funny, convinced him to go to an open mic night. We estimate that he's getting paid around $50,000 per event, and with around 40 UFC events a year, that’s $2 million a year! He actually did the first 12 events for free (!!) and about 24 years later, he’s still commentating for the UFC and getting paid extremely handsomely from it. So around 1997, Dana White reached out to him and asked him to come commentate for the UFC, and he did! He then won the US championship at 19, and at age 22, he decided to stop competing because he was scared of getting permanent brain damage.īut his love of martial arts never went away. He got his black belt two years later, became a teacher at his gym, and won the state championship at 18. As a kid, Joe was small and got picked on and bullied at school (just like me) so when he was 14 or 15, he actually decided to start training at a taekwondo school and became obsessed with the sport.
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